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Saturday, November 26, 2016

I'm excited to share my final project as a Guest Designer for Your Next Stamp! What a wonderful opportunity it was to create and share projects for them this month!

This week, they are having a Sketch Challenge. You can also combine it with a colour challenge as well if you like, but must use three of the five colours shown. Please see the YNS stamp blog post for details. I had an idea to use the Paint Swooshes and Spatters set to form a background behind the tree. I wasn't sure how that would go, but I really like the way it turned out and think I may do some simple tree cards using this method.

I stamped the Merry and Bright Tree three times; twice onto the olive cardstock and once onto caramel. I fussy cut the tree in its entirety and the second cutting consisted of cutting it into layers so that I could sponge the edges to get more depth. The large star on top was made with a Stampin' Up! punch that i've had forever! The sentiment is from the Snowman Family set

Your Next Stamp has the most adorable stamps! Be sure to stock up

Now is a great time to as there is a sale going on until November 29th!

Friday, November 11, 2016

Hello Everyone! It’s finally Friday andYNS has a new challenge starting today. It’s just the thing to jump start your creativity and wouldn’t you love a chance to win a YNS Store gift certificate???!!! There is a sketch and color combo to choose from, unless you really want to challenge yourself and combine the two

One random participant will win a $15.00 gift certificate to the YNS Store, plus if the winner uses YNS products on their creation they will receive an additional $5.00 on their gift certificate. We also select our favorite creation featuring YNS products from all participants and announce a “Top Pick”. The random winner and “Top Pick” will be announced on the YNS blog the Sunday following the challenge close. Link up a picture of your creation from your blog, gallery, etc. at the bottom of this post on the YNS Blog and you will be entered to win.

PLUS…if you are using YNS products on your creation why don’t you take the YNS Social Media challenge too?! You don’t need to create a different project, simply add your Challenge #52 entries to IG, SCS or FB. Check out all the details in the rules at the bottom of this post on the YNS Blog

The sketch

If you use the sketch feel free to swap out shapes or rotate; so long as we can see the basic sketch was your inspiration.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

The DT dare challenge was to create a project with the Theme Winter Fun.

Nothing makes winter more fun than a waddle of cheery Penguins. Did you know that a group of Penguins are called a Waddle? How about when they're in the water? Well, then they're called a raft. That' s your touch of trivia for today. Now onto the card!!!

I decided to colour the Waddle of Waddle's with my Prism Pencils as you can (well I can) achieve a softer look with them than with the Alcohol based markers. To create the snowy background, I used a Stampin' Up! Embossing folder. I freehanded the snow drifts!

and the Winter Fun Scene Die Set. You can see that the Train Tracks I used to ground the sentiment is a creative use of the die. The sentiment is from the Santa's Magical Sleigh Set, which was released last month. I used a spellbinders die to mount the YNS dies upon, which I had run through a Stampin' Up! Embossing Folder

YNS will be giving away a $25 Gift Certificate, the more blogs you visit and comment on the greater the odds of winning, they do not have to comment on every blog to be qualified to win.

I have reconfigured this post after having to delete the original as my cards seemed to only show for a minute before disappearing. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I wanted to be sure that you could see the projects!

I'm looking forward to sharing some more YNS projects with you this month!